So what's that's common in Orkut, Parser and the Mobile phone. Its me. Last week I released the version 0.4 of parser library. Its almost over. The only thing that's remaininig in it is the fucntionality to create new files. Also, the library doesn't handle any empty file too. Two more weeks and my baby will rock.

And now, the orkut. Yes, atlast I decided to joint it. After all, opensource is nothing more that the work of vastly different communities and I believe that orkut can be a very good place to visit, and may be to stay too. Out there, I could find a lot of interesting communities like linux kernel, mobile phone hacking, embedded linux, microkernel, and even bootloader. I should also mention that a community named GEC Thrissur do exist and I wish all my college mates be part of it. But I do wonder why most of the messages(posts) in the communities seem to be from India. Is orkut keeping track of where I log in from?? That's a seriosus privacy isssue.. right? Anyway that was a joke.

The third one is the new Qtopia Greenphone that I discovered lately in the Trolltech site. For those who need more info visit this link . Oh man, I can't wait to get my hands on one of those devices. But, I fear whether it would be costly for me. If its found worth, I may have to take a loan, it seems. So now, I'm anxiously waiting for my credit card. The citibank has told me that they would issue it within fifteen days. I hope the Greenphone stocks doesn't vanish by that time. Personally, I do wish to own one State Bank credit card, but what can I do, I have already applied for the citibank cdredit card and my senses always tell me to reject calls from other banks till I finish with this one.

So, that's it. See you...

bye.

My parser library is almost over. Like most of the people, I'm also lazy in documenting my code. So now, I'm going through the Doxygen manual. I agree that, with Doxygen, API documentation is as easy as writing comments in source code. You just need to follow the rules. Also, Doxygen provides us with a rich set of commands that are pretty easy to learn. Many things have been planned, and I need to properly serialize them. Among various regular stuff, there are certain critical thoughts too. Simply said, I'm looking for a change!

bye for now...

Hi all,

Few weeks back I moved to a new apartment with my friends and the best part of it is the broadband connection we already have there. But the sad part is that we had to share the internet amonst us. One of many ways to do it is obviously the proxy. Proxying is fine to start with, but in long run it really gives us headache.

Few days back we started our experiments with iptables, but with a little or no success. It was then that I found the Masquerading Made Simple HOWTO . That's it. Just two commands and my linux laptop became a router. Those commands are:


iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth2 -j SNAT --to X.X.X.X
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward


where eth2 is connected to internet through an ADSL modem with IP X.X.X.X. Now everything works fine with a few optimizations left to be done.

My next job is to configure my wireless card and run a home wifi network. The main concern here is obviously the security. I'm right now refering the Wireless Howto . I hope to complete its configuration in a day or two.

Till then...

bye...

So hi again,

My parser project has been moved to sourceforge. Great plans are there for the project but I'm right now a bit busy doing not so useful things like making software description documents. Anyway, my parser can be accessed from here.

I've also made quite a few plans for upgrading my e-lib software which is also hosted in sourceforge. New version is meant to be a complete overhaul of the software architecture without disturbing any of its functionalites. I'm also looking for help in Python and Postgres and hope to get it from sourceforge itself. Oh Sorry... the link to the project is here.

Thats all folks. bye...

Hi all. Another version(0.2) of parser is out. This time you can safely add comments into your configuration file which will be gracely eliminated by the library. Also, you'll now have a semi-automatic processing of entries within your configuration file. I appologise for the lack of complete documentation, but all you need to know about using the library is within the sample source provided along with.

Most important for me is that, I've atlast found use for the ar utility. Ever wondered how to package multiple object files into a single static library. That's it. Its as simple as typing the following command in your folder:

ar -rcs mylib.a *.o

All the object files(*.o) in your current directory will be combined to form a single static library. Isn't that great. Now to compile your program using that static library you just need to run gcc as you'd normally do with a single object file. That's right:

gcc mylib.a test.c

Ohh.. I forgot to tell you that you can download the version 0.2 of parser from here .

Bye for now...